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8 www.xilinx.com ML501 Reference Design
UG227 (v1.0) June 18, 2007
Reference Designs
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Reference Designs
Base System Builder
The BSB wizard helps designers quickly create a working embedded system using a point-
and-click GUI to select a Xilinx processor and an associated set of desired peripherals. BSB
generated designs for the ML501 are available at:
• http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards/ml501/reference_designs.htm#bsb_design
The tutorial describes how to use the EDK BSB wizard, described in the Embedded System
Tools Reference Manual [Ref 4], to create a hardware design for the ML501 platform. Figure 1
shows a block diagram of the MicroBlaze™ processor based embedded system generated
by BSB. A set of basic software test applications are also generated to verify the
functionality of the peripherals instantiated within the BSB design.
The BSB design can be further customized within the Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS)
environment to add additional standard EDK IP or user-created IP cores.
Figure 1: Base System Builder Block Diagram
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BRAM
UART
INTC
SYSACE
GPIO
EMC
IIC
Ethernet
DDR2
(256 MB)
OPB
ARB
MicroBlaze
CPU Block
LMB